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Rok Garbas

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Engineer at Flox | 20+ yrs DevOps & Release Eng | Ex-Mozilla | I build tools then help people use them | Nix community contributor | Conference speaker

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You’ve learned Nix and you see the power πŸ‘‰ Deterministic builds, reproducibility, no more β€œworks on my machine.”

@rok-garbas.bsky.social will show you how to bring Nix into your team’s workflow without asking anyone to learn Nix.

Join us! buff.ly/KYMiX4N

25.02.2026 20:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening from the sky

03.03.2026 20:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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You know Nix. Your team doesn't. You've tried the pitch. They went back to Docker.

Giving a workshop at PlanetNix: Give your team Flox. They get reproducible envs. You keep your flakes. Everyone wins.

Some will learn Nix eventually. Some won't. Both fine.

planetnix.com

01.03.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Wispr Flow just showed me what I said most in 2025.

Go-to phrase: "Let's commit the changes"
In Ghostty: "Please review and commit"

I was hoping it would say "talking to my wife."

Nope. Just git.

19.01.2026 17:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PlanetNix 2026 PlanetNix 2026 - A two-day conference for Nix builders. March 5-6, 2026 in Pasadena, CA. Join developers, contributors, and teams using Nix in production for talks, workshops, and hands-on learning.

~12 hours for PlanetNix CFP.

If you use Nix you probably hate talking about it. Never bring it up at work. Definitely don't submit a talk.

Unless...?

March 5-6 in Pasadena, co-located with SCaLE. Good conversations, great burritos (it's LA).

planetnix.com

15.01.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke - Software Engineering Daily Modern software development is more complex than ever. Teams work across different operating systems, chip architectures, and cloud environments, each with its own dependency quirks and version mismat...

Michael Stahnke is the VP of Engineering at @flox.dev. He joins @kball.llc to talk about Flox, building on top of Nix, software security, and much more.

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/08/f...

08.01.2026 11:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Internet, please be kind, this is the first time for me 😊

... and yes, let's learn hashtag#Flox and hashtag#Nix together

18.09.2025 18:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I had to skip last year's NixCon last moment, but not skipping it this year :)

11.07.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We recently launched something big at Flox: Build & Publish πŸŽ‰

βœ… Build in a clean, reproducible environment
πŸ“¦ Package it with everything it needs
πŸš€ Run it anywhere

Ready to dive in?

Full walkthrough: buff.ly/ARJ3TSH

15-min demo (Go project): buff.ly/kBYDWUi

Quick docs tutorial: buff.ly/KrFf1yr

08.07.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're thrilled to be part of Redpoint’s 2025 InfraRed 100 list, which highlights 100 transformative companies in cloud infrastructure. Proud to be in such outstanding company!

buff.ly/OFIborH

10.06.2025 14:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What makes Nix stick?

Ron Efroni shares how the Nix community became one of the most helpful and passionate in open source.

We go deeper in Nix in the Wild, where devs share how they’re using Nix in real-world projects.

buff.ly/USSNVuP

#nix #opensource

11.04.2025 15:09 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes writing code isn’t the hardest part.
It’s dealing with everything *around* it.

❌ Different Node/Python versions.
❌ Piles of dependencies.
❌ READMEs that *almost* work (but don’t).

With Flox, you can set up environments in seconds.

Watch the full video here: buff.ly/UnyNHBD

#flox

09.04.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is not "or" its "and/or" πŸ˜†

05.02.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A puppet pro decides to learn nix Configuration management is nothing new for Michael Stahnke. In this talk, he’ll be looking at Nix, the functional package manager (and a bit of NixOS) …

Slides for my talk at cfgmgmtcamp speakerdeck.com/stahnma/a-pu...

03.02.2025 18:20 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nix: structuring Flakes with Blueprint I’m sitting here, in an Airbnb in Brussels, after a long weekend of talking tech and drinking beer during my first FOSSDEM. Seems like as good a time as any then to try and restart my regular posting ...

Brian wrote a post on blueprint: bmcgee.ie/posts/2025/0...

The project is coming along quite nicely.

03.02.2025 22:19 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In the real world, Flox and #containers neatly 🧩 complement one another.

The real magic ✨ lies in using Flox inside containers to fetch & manage runtime dependencies dynamically.

This keeps images minimal πŸ“¦ + guarantees reproducibility πŸ”. Learn more:

[https://buff.ly/4hetTrW]

31.01.2025 15:10 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Planet Nix: March 6th-7th, 2025 @ Pasadena, CA A conference for contributors and users of Nix and NixOS.

Anyone planning on coming to Planet Nix in March? planetnix.com #nixos

29.12.2024 09:56 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We love hearing stories on how simple it is to streamline your workflows and explore Nix via Flox ++ the positive experience with our friends over at Ghostty ❀️
kenichishibata.medium.com/my-3-christm...

03.01.2025 16:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Homebrew migration guide

Flox is an environment and package manager all in one. Using Flox, you can create discrete environments containing packages from the Flox Catalog.

Flox can replace Homebrew entirely, or they can be used together.

This guide explains how to introduce Flox into environments where Homebrew is currently being used, either as a replacement or an addition. It introduces new concepts and proposes a basic procedure for mapping packages.

Homebrew migration guide Flox is an environment and package manager all in one. Using Flox, you can create discrete environments containing packages from the Flox Catalog. Flox can replace Homebrew entirely, or they can be used together. This guide explains how to introduce Flox into environments where Homebrew is currently being used, either as a replacement or an addition. It introduces new concepts and proposes a basic procedure for mapping packages.

Remember that experiment of using @flox.dev to replace Homebrew? Now it's official. flox.dev/docs/tutoria...

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